Keep Your Nose to the Grindstone — VOA Learning English
Topics: суспільство
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Learning a language is difficult. Sometimes it requires a plan and resources. But it also usually requires hard work. People who persist with their language goals often get good results. They keep working even through hard times. They keep their nose to the grindstone.
When you keep your nose to the grindstone, you work very hard for a long time at something. You don’t give up.
How do we use this idiom in daily life? How did it come to mean perseverance? And just what is a grindstone? We answer all these questions on today’s show.
First, let’s talk about a grindstone. A grindstone is a large stone circular stone with a hole in the…
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